houses
plural of “house” — a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
An inflected form of house · plural.
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,040 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 17,677 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.008% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families he has a house on Cape Codshe felt she had to get out of the house
- the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments also: firm, business firm he worked for a brokerage house
- the members of a religious community living together
- the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema the house applaudedhe counted the house
- an official assembly having legislative powers a bicameral legislature has two houses
- aristocratic family line the House of York
houses in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Just children and children and children and tenement houses.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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It contained rather less than a hundred houses, all deep thatched and thick walled.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance · Hall, Sir Caine · Chapter 1
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From twelve o'clock until four, the eating houses of the City are crammed with hungry clerks.
Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1
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The houses here were so high that the upper windows could scarcely be seen from below.
Cornelli · Johanna Spyri · Chapter 1
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There are houses scattered here and there, each having its family of Hyups, as the people call themselves.
The Magic of Oz · L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum · Chapter 1